"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

A general comment, but sparked by the LCWR. LeftyLiberal Catholics seem to project their Inner State onto the Church, expecting it to take up all the joys of egalitarian democracy of the Democrat persuasion, while projecting their Inner Church onto the State, pulling for it to be the source of charity, morality and community. The worst of both worlds.

And while enthusiastically severing any connection between Christian doctrine and the State, these secularizing crypto-Constantinian believers nevertheless advocate for the non-religious State to enact programs and policies based on the highest forms of Christian morality. They expect Caesar to act like God while adamantly resisting that Caesar should know anything in particular about Him.

Our poor Founding Fathers didn't want the State and the Church to be linked, as they were in England. To protect both spheres from the other. What they could not have imagined is that in America, the State itself would eventually become the State Church.

Like my fellow "Anonymous", I'm rather disappointed by those friars - some of whom I know personally. What is true & good is not decided by polls and signature lists for and against. Such is hardly the Way of the Preacher.